Thursday, August 31, 2017


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If Trump doesn't resign earth to collide with Nibiru next month!

NASA scientists have reportedly confirmed that the planet Nibiru will collide with Earth on October 17, 2017 or 17/10/17.

The Nibiru collision with Earth in 2017 has been predicted for a long time, but astrophysicists, cosmologists and astronomers around the world have now come to a consensus that Earth will indeed collide with the planet, which lies just outside Pluto.

Nibiru, in Babylonian Astronomy translates to “Point of Transition” or “Planet of Crossing,” especially of rivers, i.e. river crossings or ferry-boats, a term of the highest point of the ecliptic, i.e. the point of summer solstice, and its associated constellation. The establishment of the Nibiru point is described in tablet 5 of the Enuma Elish. Its cuneiform sign was often a cross, or various winged disc.


Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, wakes up each morning to a growing problem that will not go away. His family’s real estate business, Kushner Cos., owes hundreds of millions of dollars on a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue. It has failed to secure foreign investors, despite an extensive search, and its resources are more limited than generally understood. As a result, the company faces significant challenges.

Over the past two years, executives and family members have sought substantial overseas investment from previously undisclosed places: South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund, France’s richest man, Israeli banks and insurance companies, and exploratory talks with a Saudi developer, according to former and current executives. These were in addition to previously reported attempts to raise money in China and Qatar.....


Trump’s debt to Deutsche Bank

When Donald Trump sued Deutsche Bank in late 2008, it was “classic Trump”, according to the German bank, which sued him back. The New York property developer was trying to wriggle out of $40m of personal guarantees he had supplied on a $640m loan to build Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago. The Lehman Brothers crisis was an unimaginable event that should get him off the hook, he argued. The future US president sought damages of $3bn — because the Deutsche-led consortium of lenders had just played a part in wrecking the world economy.
The two sides sparred for a while before settling out of court....


https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

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All bark and no bite?

Trump May Be More Dangerous Than His Handlers Realized

It was always clear that Donald Trump could never be fully White House–trained. No chief of staff could ever quiet the billionaire’s bark, or keep him from chewing up the Oval Office scenery. The septuagenerian celebrity is set in his ways — and those ways include broadcasting nearly every destructive impulse that skims across the surface of his mind. But while few believed they could muzzle the president, many have thought he could be defanged....


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/trump-may-bemore-dangerous-than-his-handlers-realized.html
A bad sign of what is to come


European pension cuts U.S. investment on Trump worries

A $53 billion Finnish pension fund is cutting its exposure to U.S. stocks, due to concerns about President Trump's behavior. The "breaking point" for Varma Mutual Pension Insurance was Trump's reaction to the recent racial tensions in Charlottesville, according to a Bloomberg interview with Varma CEO Risto Murto: "It seems as if there is no president... The lesson from 2008 is that if we have a problem in the U.S., then we all have a problem....


Monday, August 28, 2017

Bookies: The chance of Donald Trump resigning is at its highest yet

The odds on President Trump resigning are now the shortest they've been since betting opened. Paddy Power said it's reporting a stream of bets on the President calling it a day, piling into the 6/4 on offer for Trump to resign, which has made the bookmaker cut the odds into Evs. That is the shortest price it has been since betting opened just after Trump's inauguration in January.

The news comes after the ghostwriter of Donald Trump's book The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz, predicted that Trump will resign before the end of the year. Schwartz said on Twitter that Trump's presidency was "effectively over" and that "the circle is closing at blinding speed"....




Sunday, August 27, 2017





Donald Trump’s company ‘pursued deal to develop Trump Tower in Moscow’

DONALD Trump’s company was reportedly pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for the US presidency, according to sources.
Citing several people familiar with the proposal and new records reviewed by Trump Organization lawyers, The Washington Post reports Trump’s company went after the plan in late 2015 and early 2016 as he faced off with Hillary Clinton to become commander-in-chief.

As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer allegedly urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested he could get Russian President Vladimir Putin to say “great things” about Trump, The Post reported based on information from several people who were briefed on his correspondence.


An influential group of investors refuses to give up hope that Trump will get something done

You don't need to follow the market to know that expectations around President Donald Trump's proposed policies have dimmed considerably. But if you look closely enough at the investment universe, you'll notice one area hasn't abandoned hope: equity mutual funds.


Trump Damaged Democracy, Silicon Valley Will Finish It Off

Donald Trump’s rise is, in a sense, just one symptom of the damage the tech oligarchs are doing to America.


When Democrats made their post-election populist “Better Deal” pitch, they took a strong stance against pharmaceutical and financial monopolies. But they conspicuously left out the most profound antitrust challenge of our time—the tech oligarchy.

The information sector, notes The Economist, is now the most consolidated sector of the American economy. The Silicon Valley and its Puget Sound annex dominated by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft increasingly resemble the pre-gas crisis Detroit of the Big Three....


Friday, August 25, 2017

Can an ex-spy take away the president’s megaphone before he tweets the world into Armageddon?

INSIDE VALERIE PLAME’S QUIXOTIC MISSION TO BUY TWITTER—AND SHUT DOWN TRUMP
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Nearly 15 years after former C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame had her covert status leaked to the press by members of the George W. Bush administration, the outed spy has a new national security mission: saving the world from Donald Trump. She has been keeping busy in the years since she retired from the C.I.A. and moved, with her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, from Washington to Sante Fe, writing spy thrillers and raising teenage twins. She turned one of her books, a memoir about the 2003 scandal that bears her name, into a movie starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But it is her obsession with nuclear weapons that has inspired her most recent, and most quixotic, bout of activism....



Bad, bad jobs

White House Staffer Tasked With Finding Positive Press About Trump Has Resigned

The person with one of the hardest jobs in the history of the world — finding and distributing positive news stories about President Donald Trump — has resigned from the White House, Politico reports. Andy Hemming, the White House’s director of rapid response, stepped down on Monday, which a source told Politico was a “mutually agreed upon” separation (sure). Now, the 31-year-old plans to take some time off to vacation, golf, and plot his next move — instead of making $89,000 a year somehow tracking down favorable stories about a man with an incredibly-low approval rating.


He is pretty crazy”

He Screams About ‘Race Traitors’ and Trump Loves Him

Sam Clovis is anti-science, pro-birther, and UFO-curious. Which has a lot of folks asking: Why did Trump name him to a top science post?
Sam Clovis is good on TV, which is why President Donald Trump likes him. Whether it qualifies him for a high-level administration post, or gets him confirmed by the Senate, is another question entirely.....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/he-screams-about-race-traitorsand-trump-loves-him


Wednesday, August 23, 2017

You plebes can’t even fathom how hard it is being this rich.

MNUCHIN’S WIFE GOES FULL MARIE ANTOINETTE IN INSTAGRAM MELTDOWN

The millionaire wife of the millionaire Treasury secretary bragged about how much they pay in taxes and accused a critic of being “adorably out of touch.”


Prior to January 20, 2017, there was a lamentable lack of social-media scandals involving our public servants in the federal government. Then Donald Trump moved into the White House and, of course, everything changed. Now, we’ve come to expect that the president of the United States will go on late-night rants when he is feeling piqued, attacking everything from North Korea to media outlets to retailers who stopped selling his adult daughter’s handbags, occasionally deploying ALL CAPS to signal his seriousness or scare quotes to underscore his contempt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the tone set by the president seems to have trickled down to his Cabinet members and their spouses, too. For instance, whereas in times past, the wife of the Treasury secretary might have felt an obligation to not lash out at an Instagram commenter in a diatribe boasting about her vast wealth, now.....
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Reportedly Tells Email Prankster He Can Have Ivanka ‘Out by End of Year’

Upon his departure from the White House, Steve Bannon made it pretty clear how he felt about Ivanka Trump. According to the New York Times, he “openly complained to colleagues that he resented how Ms. Trump would try to undo some of the major policy initiatives he and Mr. Trump agreed were important to the economic nationalist agenda,” and he put her and Jared Kushner near the top of his enemies list....

https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/breitbart-editor-says-hell-have-ivanka-out-by-end-of-year.html


Former DNI Chief Clapper Questions Trump’s ‘Fitness’ to Be President

National Intelligence, James Clapper, said he now questions President Trump’s fitness for the executive office following a rally in Phoenix that Clapper called “downright scary and disturbing.”

The former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said Tuesday night on CNN that he now questions President Trump’s fitness for the executive office and worries about his access to the nuclear-launch codes, in an unprecedented critique of a commander in chief by a top intel official. Following a rally in Phoenix that Clapper called “downright scary and disturbing,” he said, “I really question his ability to be—his fitness to be—in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it.”


Sunday, August 20, 2017

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Trump terrible, but Democrats impotent

It's a daily occurrence. Donald Trump says, does or tweets something Democrats find outrageous. They kick, scream and tweet. They proclaim that Trump and the Republicans are repugnant, out of touch and—just you wait—will be booted to the curb at the next election. Then the sun sets, rises again and the cycle repeats itself. It has been this way for eight months. There is a good chance it will continue for eight months more. Perhaps by that time Democrats will actually have a coherent, unified message they can pass along that will make people vote for them. 

 But don't bet on it....


http://www.jamestownsun.com/opinion/columns/4314956-trump-terrible-democrats-impotent
U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes

Donald Trump has no clue what it means to be president

DEFENDERS of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America stand tall again by demolishing the politically correct taboos of left-leaning, establishment elites. From the start, these arguments looked like wishful thinking. After Mr Trump’s press conference in New York on August 15th they lie in ruins.



Trump disbands federal advisory panel on climate change

The Trump administration will push ahead with disbanding a federal advisory panel that reported on climate change, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The move follows the leak of a draft of a major climate change report warning of rising temperatures.




The US fired the first shot in a trade war with China

The US has initiated an investigation into China's theft of US intellectual property (IP) using Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. What that boils down to is that the US just fired the first shot in a trade war with China.


Saturday, August 19, 2017

How Trump v Kim can still wreck the world economy without a shot being fired

Full marks for timing, Mr President. Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, making it an appropriate moment for Donald Trump to threaten North Korea with obliteration...


Friday, August 18, 2017






Bannon, backed by billionaire, prepares to go to war

Steve Bannon's next moves will be all about the billionaire Mercer family. I'm told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded force on the outside. Bannon has felt liberated since it became clear he was being pushed out, according to friends. He's told associates he has a "killing machine" in Breitbart News, and it's possible he returns to lead their editorial operation. A source familiar with Breitbart's operations told me they would go "thermonuclear" against "globalists" that Bannon and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by extension, America.


https://www.axios.com/bannons-next-move-2474479917.html
Prefer Pence? 10 things to know about Mike Pence's policies and beliefs — and how he acted on them over the years.

1) Pence didn't want women serving in the military, he wrote in a 1999 op-ed that "Mulan" was liberal propaganda, and proof that women in the military doesn't work (referring to her love interest in another soldier).

2) In 2000, Pence wrote an op-ed in which he said "smoking doesn't kill." The article resurfaced during the 2016 election because of the claim, which Penc appeared to contradict by saying in the same op-ed, "smoking is not good for you."

3) While running for Congress in 2000, Pence wrote on his website that money funding research for HIV/AIDS should be moved to fund conversion therapy, "which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."

4) In 2011, Pence authored a bill to completely defund Planned Parenthood, and signaled he was willing to prompt a government shutdown over it.


http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-beliefs-about-abortion-gay-marriage-women-reporters-2017-6



Generous Trump Lets Melania Be Her Own Woman, Tweet Her Own Tweets


Last Saturday, shortly after news spread of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, Melania Trump sent out a tweet:

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Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville
11:36 AM - Aug 12, 2017
22,487 22,487 Replies 37,592 37,592 Retweets 134,247 134,247 likes

It was somewhat remarkable, given the fact that her husband had yet to comment on the issue — his tweet came almost an hour later. And on Wednesday, as the nation waited for President Trump to address the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Melania again beat him to the punch:

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Thoughts and prayers to #Barcelona
11:51 AM - Aug 17, 2017
2,520 2,520 Replies 10,553 10,553 Retweets 48,744 48,744 likes

According to CNN, the First Lady is so quick on the uptake because she “does not pay attention to when her tweets are sent vs. those of the President.” She also operates her Twitter account autonomously. According to a White House official, “When it comes to social media, Twitter in particular, the first lady does not check in with her husband before posting. She is her own person, the official said, operating the account herself and paying close attention to which events warrant comment and which do not.”

https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/donald-trump-melania-trump-tweets-charlottesville-barcelona.html



Pence compares Trump to Teddy Roosevelt, praises his 'can-do spirit'


On a normal day, Vice President Mike Pence's praise of his boss knows few limits.
But on Thursday, it seemed to reach a new level. During a visit to the Panama Canal here, Mike "Lickspital" Pence spoke of President Donald Trump as the modern reincarnation of one of the vice president's personal heroes, Theodore Roosevelt.
"In President Donald Trump, I think the United States once again has a president whose 
vision, energy and can-do spirit is reminiscent of President Teddy Roosevelt," Pence said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-pence-trump-teddy-roosevelt-20170817-story.html



Thursday, August 17, 2017

Trump Doesn’t Need Dimon, Fink, Or Schwarzman If He’s Got Teen Hedge Fund Manager Jacob Wohl, Says Wohl



One of Donald Trump’s favorite things to brag about was his super-team of CEOs, and he reveled in playing “Real Businessman” when he summoned the likes of Steve Schwarzman, Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink and others to the White House,..But now that whole kabuki routine is no more, and the president has been openly condemned by the very people that he was eager to show off as “The best people. The people that love Trump.”

No sooner had President Donald Trump lost the backing of Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink than he was heralding support from a somewhat lesser financial figure: Jacob Wohl. That’s right, you guys, Trump is finding solace in the social media arms of everyone’s favorite banned teenage futures trader...




http://dealbreaker.com/2017/08/trump-doesnt-need-dimon-fink-or-schwarzman-if-hes-got-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-says-jacob-wohl/?
Art Of The Deal’ Co-Author Tony Schwartz Predicts Trump’s About To Resign
Trump’s presidency is effectively over.”



Tony Schwartz, co-author of Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal, predicted the president would make a deal for immunity and then resign.  Schwartz is predicting that the president is getting ready to call it quits ― and that the resignation will happen soon.
He wrote on Twitter Wednesday:

Tony Schwartz ✔ @tonyschwartz
The circle is closing at blinding speed. Trump is going to resign and declare victory before Mueller and congress leave him no choice.
12:34 PM - Aug 16, 2017

Tony Schwartz ✔ @tonyschwartz
Trump's presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner.
2:20 PM - Aug 16, 2017




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tony-schwartz-trump-resign_us_59952d91e4b06ef724d64fd6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Top London hedge fund boss warns populist wave may roll on

One of London's top hedge fund bosses reckons there could be further political shoes to drop  Sir Michael Hintze, the billionaire chief executive of London-based CQS, has warned the wave of political populism that swept the US and Europe in 2016 could have further to run yet — picking out South Africa, Turkey and France as countries at risk.
"I think rumours of the demise of populism are premature," Hintze wrote....


https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/hedge-fund-boss-populist-wave-may-roll-on-20170817
Trump Blasts Critics Who Judge Neo-Nazi Groups By Most Extreme Members

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http://www.theonion.com/graphic/trump-blasts-critics-who-judge-neo-nazi-groups-mos-56662?ref=hvper.com

The White House - Corporate meltdown in the making

Trump’s Overt Racism Has Put Corporate America In a Bind

Virtually no one in the United States believes that corporations deserve a tax break. Despite the fact that one of the nation’s major parties spends every election cycle loudly decrying the IRS’s oppression of Corporate America – while the other evinces a quieter sympathy for big business’s plight – only 9 percent of Americans think that corporations pay “too much” in taxes,.....”

This puts major corporations in a bit of a pickle. This isn’t a new problem for our job creators. And over the past few decades, they’ve developed a number of strategies for overcoming it. Among the most successful of these was the business community’s decision to enter into a coalition with the reactionary whites and fundamentalist Christians who were repulsed by the racial and social progressivism of the post-Civil Rights Era Democratic Party.....


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Trump’s Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country
Donald Trump’s aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign....They are angry that Trump revealed beliefs they wish to keep hidden. “Members of the president’s staff, stunned and disheartened, said they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private,” reports the New York Times....

This raises the question once again of why they are working for Trump at all...Trump is a dangerous and erratic figure, and somebody needs to try to steer him away from decisions that would provoke unalterable tragedy. That justification covers serving Trump as a foreign-policy adviser, or as homeland security and disaster-response officials. But what justification can the domestic and political advisers offer?


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/trumps-aides-tried-to-conceal-his-crazy-racist-beliefs.html

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Not the same old, same old...but pretty close

Trump's New China-Trade Mistake

You may have a sense of deja vu. Once again, Donald Trump's administration is stirring up a trade dispute with China. Once again, it's doing so ineptly and without any obvious objectives. This time, the dispute concerns intellectual property, in particular China's practice of asking U.S. companies to transfer technologies as a condition of doing business there...... He has a point on intellectual property. But his solution is misguided.




Maybe China’s Plan for World Domination in AI Isn’t So Crazy After All


China has key AI ingredient: a vast well of government data


The nation is betting heavily on AI. Money is pouring in from China’s investors, big internet companies and its government, driven by a belief that the technology can remake entire sectors of the economy, as well as national security. A similar effort is underway in the U.S., but in this new global arms race, China has three advantages: A vast pool of engineers to write the software, a massive base of 751 million internet users to test it on, and most importantly staunch government support that includes handing over gobs of citizens’ data –- something that makes Western officials squirm....


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/china-s-plan-for-world-domination-in-ai-isn-t-so-crazy-after-all
The Germans seen the symbols that were on display in Charlottesville before, and they know where they lead.

Germans Aren’t Surprised By The Recent Violence Of America’s White Nationalists

To Germans, it is no surprise that right-wing violence is escalating in America and that the president for days appeared unwilling to explicitly condemn the racists responsible for the death of a young woman during a far-right demonstration in Charlottesville....
In Germany, commentators from even the most conservative media organizations now argue the U.S. is moving away from democracy under President Donald Trump; that the president has become, in the words of one well-known sociologist, “the standard-bearer” for white supremacists.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/germany-reaction-to-charlottesville_us_59922bf4e4b08a247276c42d?section=us_politics
Big Brother wants you

Feds Want 1 Million Anti-Trump IP Addresses to Prove Riot 'Conspiracy'


Federal prosecutors want identifying information on more than 1 million people who visited an anti-Trump website.

The website-hosting company DreamHost must turn over records related to visitors to disruptj20.org, according to a warrant issued last month. . Disrupt J20 was a hub for people who planned to Trump’s J inauguration in Washington, D.C. and hosted maps, legal resources, and art for demonstrators. But after some protesters broke windows and damaged cars, police swept up over 200 people in a mass arrest, including journalists and self-described peaceful protesters.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-want-1-million-anti-trump-ip-addresses-to-prove-riot-conspiracy


Monday, August 14, 2017

Don’t Look Now, But Alt-Right Demonstrations Are Scheduled for Nine Cities Next Weekend

Alt-right protests against Google’s allegedly anti-white-male diversity policies were already being planned before the white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville this last weekend. And organizers of the March on Google in (at last count) nine cities are trying to distinguish themselves from the motley gang of neo-Nazis, Kluxers, and open white supremacists who held the Unite the Right rally in Virginia.....


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/alt-right-demonstrations-scheduled-for-9-cities-next-weekend.html


Meet Trumpy


Now Trump Is Being Stalked By A Giant Freaky Rat

Move over, giant chicken. President Donald Trump has a new inflatable parody ready to follow him around. And this one is even uglier.
Trumpy the Rat made its debut near Trump Tower in New York on Monday during the president’s first visit to his home since taking office in January....


How the GOP Can Prove It Isn’t a Party for White Supremacists

On Saturday, white supremacists marched on Charlottesville to defend the honor of men who fought for their right to keep dark-skinned people as chattel. That same day, in the same city, socialists, anarchists, and Nazi-hating normies marched to defend the fundamental dignity of all human beings.....Hours later, the president of the United States condemned “the hatred, bigotry, and violence — on many sides.” Donald Trump went on to say that Americans must “cherish our history,” a phrase that, in context, could be understood only as an expression of support for the preservation of Confederate monuments...



http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/how-the-gop-can-prove-it-isnt-a-party-for-white-racists.html

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Nobody likes him, everybody hates him...he's going to go on worms.........

The New World Order Is Leaving the U.S. Behind

Of all the global consequences of President Donald Trump’s first half-year, surely one of the most surprising is the rise in multilateral diplomacy.....American allies have decided Trump is simply not someone they can do business with....


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-11/the-new-world-order-is-leaving-the-u-s-behind

Hell, It couldn't happen to a nicer guy


Trump suspects Bannon of leaking, putting job in jeopardy


President Trump has told close associates that he believes Steve Bannon is behind damaging leaks about White House colleagues, putting the chief strategist's job in fresh jeopardy, sources close to the president tell me.

Trump has told associates he's fed up with what he sees as self-promotion by Bannon, who did not join the core team this week at the president's golf club in Bedminster, N.J


https://www.axios.com/steve-bannons-job-in-jeopardy-trump-suspects-him-of-leaking-2472208484.html



Is Trump Scared Of Upsetting White Supremacists?


Why Trump Can’t Say the Obvious

It’s long past Passover, but the latest effusions from Donald Trump bring to mind the question that begins that ritual: “Why is this president different from all other presidents?” The president won’t condemn white supremacy because he has no appreciation for America’s tragic history ( among other things....)





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Truth is, someone's going to lose big in Trump's economy — but no one thinks it's them


Steve Wynn sounds jubilant these days. On Thursday, the Las Vegas casino billionaire gave his quarterly address to shareholders of Wynn Entertainment....When a worried Wall Street analyst asked him whether he thought trade spats between President Donald Trump and a nationalistic Chinese government might hurt his business, he sounded confident.

"There isn't a leader in America or a leader in China that doesn't understand that when these two countries come together on an intelligent basis the world is better ... It gives me long-term confidence, in spite of what happens in the short term, verbally."
Actually, trade wars start verbally, and Trump so far has been sticking to his verbal commitments.....

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-war-with-mexico-and-china-2017-1

Saturday, August 12, 2017


Mountain hiking - around 1910
Mountain hiking - around 1910



Trump jokes that North Korea’s threats will boost tourism to Guam

In a recorded phone call to Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo, the president tried to reassure the residents of the island, saying, “We are with you 1000 percent….Don’t worry about a thing.” Trump went on to congratulate Calvo for “becoming extremely famous”, adding, “All over the world they’re talking about Guam.” Tourism - I can say this - you’re going to go up ten-fold, with the expenditure of no money….It just looks like a beautiful place.”

While Trump maintained a lighthearted tone, Guam’s Office of Civil Defense started passing out flyers on Friday to help residents prepare for a missile attack from North Korea.



Friday, August 11, 2017

White House Officials: a Cabal of Islamists, Marxists, and Bankers Is at War With Trump

Wait a sec...Marxists and bankers?

Now that Homeland Security is warning residents of Guam not to look directly at “the flash or fireball” of an atomic bomb — while the president carries on merrily tweeting implicit threats of a nuclear first-strike — it may be hard for you to imagine how this administration’s foreign policy could have turned out any worse. If so, then you forgot about Flynn....


Thursday, August 10, 2017






The Bloom Is Off the Javanka Rose

Where'd the glitter go? Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were the golden couple destined to dazzle Washington and shape the administration of President Donald Trump. That glitter is gone, replaced by policy failures, poor judgments and ethical embarrassments....



How Trump's War With Republicans Could End

I have no idea what's going on in Trump's mind. And it's absolutely true that he's constructed an inner circle in the White House that has very few connections to the Republican network. And yet: Such a move would doom what is already a seriously damaged presidency.....




What crisis?   It's a huge buying opportunity


Hedge funds score big win on obscure trade as North Korea nuclear risk is raised

Hedge funds bought insurance against a South Korean default Wednesday as tensions around North Korea increased. An obscure safety trade against fallout from a North Korean nuclear attack leaped Wednesday to its highest in more than a year.
Hedge funds bought South Korea's five-year credit default swap, sending the cost of protection against the country's inability to pay back loans up 8.63 percent to 62.74, its highest since June 2016....


https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/09/hedge-funds-score-big-win-on-trade-as-north-korea-nuclear-risk-is-raised.html

Wednesday, August 9, 2017




He has thought quite a bit about the topic. Really.

What Uncle John Taught Trump About Fire and Fury

When the president reflects on nuclear weapons, he likes to remind listeners that he's the nephew of an MIT physicist....Facebook

President Donald Trump returned this week to a recurring and favorite theme of his over the years: nuclear war and annihilation.....Amid the president's threats to unleash "fire and fury" upon North Korea if the country's nuclear ambitions continue to expand, look no further than Trump's late uncle, John Trump, for a window onto POTUS's thinking.


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/uncle-john-taught-trump-about-fire-and-fury
Oh Boy, Sean Spicer Reportedly Wants to Be on SNL

Seriously...Just because Sean Spicer resigned from his job as Donald Trump’s White House press secretary doesn’t mean he no longer enjoys being humiliated on national television. Sources told Us Weekly the gum enthusiast is “angling” to appear on Saturday Night Live, the show he once described as “silly” and “malicious.”

See? He’s in on the joke, you guys. He was laughing with us when he lied on behalf of the administration! Classic!


The next Trump & Co. Covfefe


There’s another feud brewing in Trump’s White House

The fierce internal White House battle between two of President Trump’s top aides shows no signs of letting up.

H.R. McMaster has been the target of a sustained campaign to oust him as national security adviser over claims he’s not a Trump loyalist or believer in an “America First” foreign policy......The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal came to McMaster’s defense Tuesday, saying Bannon has been a White House survivor, but his warring habits have also been responsible for much of the White House dysfunction.....



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The four-star general in command at the White House faces ultimate test

In November, shortly after the election of Donald Trump, retired four-star Marine Gen. John Kelly was at home on a Saturday afternoon with his wife Karen watching college football when the phone rang.

On the phone was Reince Priebus -- the man that Kelly would later supplant as White House chief of staff -- who told Kelly, "Mr. Trump would like to have an opportunity to talk to you about maybe going into the administration."


Which one of Snow White's Seven dwarfs is Trump?


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Ignore Our Crazy President, U.S. Government Tells North Korea

.It is humiliating for the world’s greatest superpower to disregard its president as a weird cranky old man who wanders in front of microphones spouting off unpredictably and without consequence. But at this point, respect for Trump’s capabilities is a horse that’s already fled the barn. New chief of staff John Kelly has supposedly instilled military-style order and message discipline into the administration, but Trump is unteachable. Minimizing the havoc means getting everybody to pretend Trump isn’t really president....


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/ignore-our-crazy-president-u-s-tells-north-korea.html

Tuesday, August 8, 2017


The President Is Presented With a Folder of Compliments Twice a Day

Here are a few of Donald Trump favorite things: Playing with trucks on the White House lawn. Eating two scoops of ice cream with dessert, while everyone else he’s with only gets one. And, as Vice News newly reports, receiving a folder filled exclusively with positive press about himself twice a day, at 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. What's in it.....


Government scientists are worried the Trump administration will suppress a major climate report — here's what it says

A leaked new government report that's part of the National Climate Assessment provides an updated look at what we know about climate change.

We, as people, are mostly responsible for that. And it's going to get worse — much worse, if we don't take significant action on greenhouse gas emissions. That's the essential takeaway from the leaked draft of a major new report on the state of the climate, which The New York Times published in full.


Monday, August 7, 2017

Why is this adminiistration like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  and Nightmare on Elm Street double feature?  

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responds to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's closing remarks during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **
Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Moron
The transcript of Donald Trump’s discussion with Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull obtained by the Washington Post reveals many things, but the most significant may be that Trump in his private negotiations is every bit as mentally limited as he appears to be in public.....


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/australias-pm-slowly-realizes-trump-is-a-complete-idiot.html